Born from the sacrificial fire (yajna-kunda) of King Drupada of Panchala, fully grown, alongside her brother Dhrishtadyumna. The yajna was performed by Yaja and Upayaja for Drupada's vengeance on Drona; Dhrishtadyumna emerged as the fated killer of Drona, Draupadi as the fated wife of the Pandavas and instrument of the Kuru destruction. Won by Arjuna at her svayamvara via the rotating-fish-eye archery test; became the shared wife of all five Pandavas through Kunti's blind-instruction ("share equally"). The disrobing in court by Dushasana after Yudhishthira lost the dice-game — Krishna's miraculous extension of her sari — is the single most-depicted scene of the Mahabharata in continuing Hindu visual culture; her vow not to tie her hair until washed in Dushasana's blood structurally caused the Kurukshetra war. Twelve years of forest exile with the Pandavas; thirteenth year incognito at Virata's court as Sairandhri. Lost all five sons (the Upapandavas) to Ashvatthama's sleeping-camp night massacre after the war's eighteenth day. Died on the mountainside during the mahaprasthana final journey toward Mt. Meru — the first of the six (five Pandavas plus Draupadi) to fall, identified by Yudhishthira as having loved Arjuna more than the other four. The Lakshmi-incarnation reading (recorded in variants[]) is the major Puranic-bhakti theological reading of her place in the cosmic order; strict-criterion classification stays at mortal.